You expect your house to stay dry in all conditions, including your basement. Basement waterproofing will keep your basement dry in all conditions. A dry basement can help your home’s function by providing more living space and keeping the structure of your home stable. There are many ways to keep your basement dry. Through a…

Keeping your rain gutters and downspouts clean will help extend the life of both. Cleaning them will prevent the build-up of leaves, sticks, and other debris that can cause leaking problems and create water damage. The best time to clean your draining system is in the fall when leaves are falling and the spring when…

Spring showers bring flowers. Unfortunately, the spring showers that help make your backyard look beautiful can also cause home water damage. Fixing water damage can be costly but preventing it can be as simple as following a few steps. As with any change in the season, you should be prepared to welcome spring and get…

Gutters and their repairs can be one of the most important long term investments you can make to the longevity of your home, particularly when talking about the downspout. As commonly described, a downspout is an extended pipe or flow pattern that allows excess water to run off away from your home for the purpose…

Whether we are acutely aware of them or not, your gutters are an integral part of your roofing system. Gutters play a huge part in managing water from rainfall and snowfall and pulling it away from the foundation of your home, saving the integrity of your windows and rescuing your outside decorative foliage. Naturally, with…

Owning a home means owning the seemingly endless list of to-dos and checkups that come along with annual maintenance. Maybe a few of those items you can push off for another day, but admittedly, during the rainy season is not the best time to find out that your roof is not up to snuff for…

Through the blustery and cold seasons of fall and winter, our home’s exterior takes a lot of damage. Ice expanding in the sidings and trim, bugs and birds settling into the warm crannies, and the winds pushing the walls to the max can leave your home wanting for warmer weather. As that weather comes, the…

Gutters are an important part of your home’s ability to push rain and precipitation away from the edges of the foundation and roofline. As part of our gutter showdown, this article will discuss the differences between box gutters and half round gutters and you should pick one over the other. If you are deciding which kind…

1. Ever wonder how much rain is falling? Here is some perspective! Two inches of rain in a day can send over 1,000 gallons of water down from your rooftops into your gutters. Most household bathtubs hold around 42 gallons – that’s a lot of water during a major rainstorm, and that’s just one house!…

You leave the house after a night of hearing a hard rain on your roof to find that the edges of your yard have big puddles on the edges of your place. Thankfully, this is mostly fixable and you can have water go to the right places. Storm Master is here with some suggestions on…